Wire package binder



s. c. CARY., WIRE PACKAGE BINDER.

APPLICATIO N FILED MAR. 31, I922.

Patented June 6, 1922.

Spencer 6. Car] atkozwu UNITED s'rArss PATENT OFFICE.

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WIRE PACKAGE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1922..

Application filed March 31, 1922. Serial No. 548,500.

T 0 a2; 10700722, it may concern.

Be it known that I, SPENCER C. CARY, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings,and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful WirePackage Binder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a wire. package binder, which is so applied to apackage as to ernbed the wire in the material composing the package orits enclosing case, with a view to compensating for shrinkage, and toprevent the binder from slipping off the package or its enclosingcasing, thus obviating the requirement for the use of staples, or otherfasteners, to preclude the binder from displacement from said package incase of shrinkage.

In the art of binding packages with wire it is desirable, if notessential, that the wire binder shall be placed under tension, but it isfound that the wire has a tendency to slip in the tensioning means andthus defeat the object of sufficiently tensioning the binder.

My purpose is to provide a binder of novel construction which is held orgripped in such a way as to preclude slipping of said binder in thedirection of its length while being put under tension, and insuring itsbeing thus held while the ends of the binder are united.

The invention consists of a wire binder composed of a length oi wirehaving a portion adjacent an end deflected out of the plane oi the wireto produce a shoulder, said shouldered part of the wire serving inconjunction with an abutment of an appropriate tensioning means topositively restrain the binder from slipping during the operation ofapplying tension to said binder.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a wire binder embodying thisinvention.

Figure 2 is a similar view of another form of the wire binder.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail of an end portion of the binder shown inFigure 2.

Figure d is a cross section on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a view of the wire binder with its ends united.

The purpose of my invention as above outlined may be accomplishedin avariety of ways, two of which are shown in the drawings.

in Figure 1 the wire binder A is provided with shoulder a, or with aplurality of shoulders a a, said shoulders being offset from the planeof the wire. lVhen a single shoulder is used, it is formed on the wirenear one end portion thcreoflbut in case two shoulders are used as at aa, they are provided near the respective ends of the binder. Theseshoulders are preformed, and they are produced by any means suitable forthe purpose. Said shoulders perform the function of abutments, and theyare adapted to 00 operate with ab'utments of'suitable tensioning meansby which the wire binder is put under tension after having been placedaround the package. It is necessary to apply very considerable tensionto the wire binder in order to embed said binder in the corners of thepackage with a view to preventing the binder from slipping off thepackage in case of shrinkage; in fact, it is not suflicient in applyingbinders to pack ages to merely draw the wire taut, but subsequently tothe operation of taking up slack in the wire so as to place it in a tautcondition, it is desirable to apply such further tension to the binderas to cause it to be embedded in the corners of the package. By the useof my wire binder the shoulders of which are in abutting relation toco-operatlve abutments oi the tensioning means the wire is held againstslipping, not only while being tensioned, but after having been putunder the requisite tension. and while the ends or" the wire binder arebeing united.

The wire B shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4.- is shouldered by flattening thewire to defleet it out of the plane of the wire proper as seen at I).This deflection of the wire produces shoulders 6 serving as abutmentsand co-operative with abutments of a desired tensioning means, for thesame purpose as the shoulders seen in Figure 1.

lVhen used in conjunction with means for applying tension to the binderat one of its end portions only, the shoulder at the other end mayco-operate with. any suitable means for holding the said end againstslipping during the tensioning operation.

It is to be noted that in both forms of the shouldered wire there is arecess with an intervening space forming separated shoulders, but anessential feature of the invention' is the formation of the wire toproduce an abutting shoulder with a terminal portion of the wireextending freely beyond said shoulder.

Figure 5 shows a wire binder as it appears after having been placedaround a package, tensioned, and united by twisting the ends together,the package not being shown. desired, the protruding end portions of thewire may be cutoff close to the twisted parts, the shouldered portionshaving served their function.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A wire package binder recessed and shouldered adjacent an end andproducing an abutment to prevent endwise movement of the binder when outunder tension.

2. As a new artic e, a wire package binder preformed to produce a recessand an abutment to prevent endwise slipping of the binder when put undertension.

3. As anew article, a wire package binder having a portion adjacent anend deflected out of the plane of the wire and producing a recess and anabutment to serve with a coacting abutment to prevent endwise slipping5. A wire package binder recessed adjacent an end portion and producinga shoulder adapted to resist slipping when tension is'applied thereto.

6. A package binder comprising a length of wire. deflected adjacent anend portion thereof and producing a shoulder adapted to resist slippingwhen tension is applied thereto, one end portion of the wire extend; ingfreely for an appreciable distance be yond said shoulder.

7. A wire package binder deflected atv a point adjacent an end portionand provided with a plurality of shoulders separated by an interveningspace, said shoulders operating .to prevent slipping when tension isapplied to the wire.

In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name this 30th day ofMarch, 1922.

SPENCER c. CARY.

